Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-03
LEONE LOCAL CHAT.

The Grand Lodge OF the Oruer OF
Good Templars convenes at Weston
next Monday. Miss Kate Bateman
is the delegate from the Lodge in
Martinsburg, and goes accompanied
by the following visiting members
from this Lodge: Mrs. Jennie Cri-
que, Mrs. Emily Chambers. and her
daughter, Miss Emma Chambers
Mrs. John Weaver, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Lowrey.
Weston may expect a "dry" spell
about that time.
The great impeachment trial is q
ROCKY" affair, with plenty of
I" Stones" playing around.
"The knights of Labor" and the
M. G. Band avoided a "boycott"
Tuesday night by the Band folding
their tents like the Arabs and silently
stealing away, glad enough to get
night off. The Band are all Knights
Of Labor" they labor with their
mouths, generally have plenty Of
company, too, in that line.
don't know what rve done that
the knights f" should boycott me,
perhaps it's the Interstate Commerce
Bill that's cut off my pass in the direc-
ton of the Opera House.
It's funny thing that in the gener-
al distribution of cut rates for Press
people in the excursion business, that
the Statesman and other paper at
taches boast of passes for the occas-
ion, when THE HERALD has none.
Yet the HERALD is good medium
in the burg for free ads, as I've long
since learned, and 1 don't know that
it has ever refused to give free
"puff" for any organization or any
legitimate business. and glad enough
to do favor or kindness; but the
law of courtesey, as we'll as the law
liberalization, is self-acting rule that
is liable at any time to work the
other way.
There ought to be law to prohibit
people from driving overloaded, old
worn out horses till they are at their
last. When horse has to appeal to
a mans compassion, by telling his
story in refusing to get up from where
he had fallen until he was lifted by
them, he is more eloquent than ever
our attorneys are, and ought to be
retired on a pension and live in
clover. Seriously it is wrong and
shame that no one should tolerate,
and 1 hope for the future of the man
who drives such horses, that Bob
Ingersoll is wrong in eliminating from
the geography of the by and by that
volcanic city known as -.
Poor Shakespeare has reason enough
to change his epitapth. Moving
his bones would be little kinder
in Davidson than to try TO take away
the brain that conceived the grand
plays that have been known and liv-
ed in his name only. Professor
Davidson does not, l believe, offer
any thing as to Bacon's remarkable
silence on the subject. His must have
been a wonderful character that
would hide his light and foist an ILL
terate dark lantern upon the public
to reflect the light behind him.
How long would such fraud live
to-day? and it's not likely the people
who lived then were less sharp, or
more easily gulled than they would
be now.
I fail to see,-as Professor Davidson
fails to give--any motive for such ex-
treme generosity upon the part of the
gentleman, whose attributed action
in this case would certainly prove
him to be far less hoggish than his
name would imply or than any man
who ever lived before or since. 1t
would be the biggest lesson land the
most unnatural) in generosity, that
the world has ever known.
But as Mr.. Flick says, it is not law
full to take evidence when the accused
is not present, pll give Shakespeare
the benefit of a doubt or two.
The next thing Mr.. Dante knows,
there will arise a claimant for his
property; tho like that General,
who is little less famous than his
speech connecting Texas with a
warmer cline IL don't believe they
would be In haste to take possession.